Using geographical information systems and cartograms as a health service quality improvement tool

Discussion This methodology provides a technique for combining simple GIS tools to create a novel output, CartIS, in a health service context with the key aim of improving visualisation communication techniques which highlight variation in small scale geographies across large regions. CartIS more faithfully represents the data than interpolation, and visually highlights areas of extreme value more than cartograms, when either is used in isolation.
Source: Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Source Type: research